Announced by Rich Thompson the other day, a format update for the meso analysis page will be coming in March. To test the updated version visit this link
I really like the fluidity of this newer look. After visiting the page for no more than five minutes I became very comfortable with its use. It is very user friendly. I look forward to using this coming up this spring.
Small Sector Capture
Update: Winter Storm for Tue-Wed
A Winter Storm Warning is in effect for areas south of a line from Pentwater to Clare beginning at 7am on Tuesday. A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for counties along a line from Ludington to Harrison beginning at 7am Tuesday. The warnings and advisories are valid through 1pm Wednesday. The storm system is expected to evolve as a phasing of two upper level disturbances occurs near the Great Lakes region by Tuesday. The resulting surface low is forecast to move into northern Ohio by late Tuesday and early Wednesday. The forecast low track is anticipated to stay just south of the Cleveland area by Tuesday night. Model guidance continues to suggest a swath of 6-12″ accumulations across southern Lower Michigan from Tuesday morning through Wednesday morning. The highest amounts will fall across southern Lower Michigan. The following are storm total accumulations for selected cities:
Ludington 4-7″
Big Rapids 5-9″
Mount Pleasant 5-9″
Muskegon 5-9″
Grand Rapids Metro 6-10″
Lansing 6-10″
Kalamazoo 8-12″
Jackson 8-12″
For some odd reason I get caught up in changing the look of the site around this time of year. I want something simple to work with. I found this template at WordPress. This has become the new look for the blog and will leave the main home page as is. I would prefer to have the blog and website layout the same. However, I am having issues with the change over in the weather pages. I am not very familiar with PHP, and several of the javascript, HTML, and CSS codes do not want to cooperate. PHP allows me to make one change or addition and it is changed on every page, rather then going through every page there is and manually changing it (time consuming).
Current changes include:
rounded corners except in IE. It is optimized for Firefox. The navigation bars on the right are collapsible and are movable (you can move the media bar below the links bar if you wanted). New top navigation buttons. The house icon takes you to the blog home page Main Site tab, takes you to midwestchasers.com main page The Blog tab will give you links to photography/storm reports by year and also a link to video’s A new featured post box
I will keep my latest updates here on the blog. Not that any one comes here anyway. . .
“On a special note, my wife and I are expecting and will be due around the 30th of August.”
It’s official, we have had the first tornado watch of the year on January 20, 2010. There were reports of several waterspouts and a tornado in California just yesterday. Today there has been one preliminary tornado report in Southern Louisiana. Tornado watch #2 has been recently issued for NW LA, NE TX, and SE OK.
Tornado warned NW of KSHV (Shreveport, LA).
I have revamped my GRlevel3 reflectivity palette and I can’t seem to find anything that I like better. It’s brighter than many hi def resolutions on GRlevelxstuff.com. The color also keeps close to the DBZ color pallet used by the NWS, COD, and several other radar sources. I have made this palette available to you below for download. You can manipulate it to the colors you would like or just use it as is. I have made several tries at a color palette that I like, and this one tops my list.